Description

Personality

Meeting her these days, one would be shocked to know that she had been voted "Class Clown" in high school. Celeste's recent divorce has left her half-empty, with frustration and anger making up much of what's left, but even when married she had begun to find life less and less amusing. A hard worker, Celeste is determined to move on and get back to her old self and has recently promised herself that she will be remarried with at least one child by the time of her next high school reunion, even if that requires marrying a man in need of a green card and adoption.

Equipment

Celeste carries a simple shoulder-strap purse with her cell phone, wallet, makeup, nail file, pens, mini flashlight, a mechanical pencil, and the day's crossword puzzle. In an interior pocket of her purse, she also keeps with her a small, smoothly worn piece of conch that resembles a white Carnivale mask with blue dots around the right "eye," which she considers a good luck charm; it was given to her by her sister on a childhood family vacation.

History

Celeste had a happy and comfortable, if uneventful upbringing. The second child in a mixed-race family, she was less fretted over than her sister, who developed mood swings that swung between paranoid and simply finicky. When she married Marcus Williams in the last semester of her senior year of college, she was excited to move with him to Libenea and didn't give her family a second thought. She had fallen for him, big time, and was willing to give up some independence for the comfort he could provide. By the time their marriage was on the rocks, she had given up far more than she had ever anticipated. When money became tight, she took a job as a filing clerk and the fraying edges of their relationship completely unraveled. Theirs was an amicable divorce, if such a thing exists, but the lonely studio apartment to which Celeste returns every night has gotten the woman down. Despite a meager budget for anything other than the necessities, she has recently joined an improv comedy class in the hope of rediscovering her high school humor, and maybe even meeting some new faces.